Trusted. Valued. Essential. NOVEMBER 2018 An American in Paris: The Musical Vegas PBS A Message from the Management Team General Manager General Manager Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS Educational Media Services Director Niki Bates Production Services Director Kareem Hatcher Communications and Brand Management Director Shauna Lemieux Business Manager Brandon Merrill Content Director Native American History Cyndy Robbins Workforce Training & Economic Development Director Debra Solt hroughout November, PBS programming celebrates human and natural Corporate Partnerships Director history with programs on Broadway and film legends, ancient architectur- Bruce Spotleson al wonders and dinosaurs, super cats and snow bears. Thanks to your Engineering, IT and Emergency Response Director support, Vegas PBS programming can link national programs with local John Turner history, including personal engagement opportunities and educational Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors Texperiences for viewers, educators and students. November is Native American Executive Director Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS Heritage Month and our programs will also explore the rich history and culture of President Native people and recognize their continuing contributions to Nevada. Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities Made in cooperative with Native American communities and recorded in spectacu- Vice President lar locations, Native America airs Tuesday nights throughout the month. The four-part Thomas Warden, The Howard Hughes Corporation series draws on science, archeology and history to showcase the ancient and still thriv- Secretary ing cultures that spread across North, Central and South America. The Independent Clark Dumont, M.S., APR, Dumont Communications, LLC Lens film Dawnland tells the story of the nation’s first-ever government-endorsed truth Treasurer Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing and reconciliation commission, which investigated the devastating impact of Maine’s Chair, Community Council child welfare practices on Native American communities. Thomas Gallagher, TreVista Group, LLC In A Point in Time, a local Nevada filmmaker follows archaeologists working in Chair, Planned Giving Council Nevada and Utah as they discover artifacts that reveal surprising details about some Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing of the first inhabitants in our neighborhood. 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Vegas PBS thanks you for your gifts and uses television to broaden perspectives, deepen understanding, inspire engagement, stimu- late informed conversations, and provide lifelong learning about history, culture, poli- tics performing arts, health, science, nature, and ancient cultures. Tom Axtell This magazine is printed on recycled paper NOVEMBER 2018 5 November 2018 Contents Cover Story 8 Give My Regards to Broadway We are Broadway-bound with a month of fantastic Broadway-themed programming! Great Performances presents more of the Great White Way's brightest stars with a new "Broadway's Best" lineup. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 20 A Message from the Corporate Partnerships Director Features 10 Science & Nature Think Wednesday 12 Drama The Fall Drama Season Continues 15 Local Feature The Power of Love 8 15 Planned Giving Free Seminar: Charitable Planning 18 How-To America’s Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays 19 Spotlight Native American Heritage Month 32 Downton Abbey Marathon 33 In the Americas with David Yetman 34 Home Improvement Saturdays 35 Outdoor Nevada 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! 10 15 Program Menu 21 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 22 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming 36 Vegas PBS Channels 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors 21 33 NOVEMBER 2018 7 COVER STORY Great Performances Give My Regards to Broadway Every Friday at 9 p.m. Great Performances: An American in Paris: The Musical We are Broadway-bound with a month of of the film, directed and choreographed by fantastic Broadway-themed programming! dance wunderkind Christopher Wheeldon, Great Performances presents more of the which earned four Tony Awards. Happily for Great White Way's brightest stars with a Broadway, dance and Gershwin fans, the new "Broadway's Best" lineup. Returning for Broadway production makes its television a second year, this fall's lineup includes debut on Great Performances with its origi- several beloved musicals, as well as docu- nal stars,Tony nominees Robert Fairchild and mentaries about the making of John Leanne Cope. Leguizamo's Tony-nominated play "Latin Rodgers & Hammerstein’s History for Morons" and 21-time Tony-win- The Sound of Music ning director and producer Harold Prince. Friday, November 9 at 9 p.m. An American in Paris: Beloved by generations of audiences world- The Musical wide, this musical tells the inspiring true story Friday, November 2 at 9 p.m. of the von Trapp Family Singers and their Described as an extended symphonic tone escape from Austria during the rise of Great Performances: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s poem, George Gershwin's 1928 composition Nazism. Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1959 The Sound of Music "An American in Paris" was commissioned by hit stage musical garnered five Tony Awards, conductor Walter Damrosch and rapidly including Best Musical, and the blockbuster tographed on adjoining sound stages, the pro- became one of his most famous compositions. 1965 movie adaptation won five Oscars, duction offers a more naturalistic interpreta- The 1951 MGM film starring Gene Kelly was including Best Picture. tion of this great classic of the American musi- inspired by Gershwin's score and became one Enjoy the 2015 live U.K. broadcast version cal theater.Among the many classic songs fea- of the studio's most acclaimed and famous starring Kara Tointon as Maria, Julian tured in the score are "The Sound of Music," movie musicals, winning six Academy Ovenden as Captain von Trapp, Katherine "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "Climb Awards. Kelley as Baroness Schraeder, Alexander Every Mountain," "Edelweiss" and more. In 2015, Paris finally came "home" to Armstrong as Max and Maria Friedman as John Leguizamo’s Road Broadway in a thrilling new stage adaptation the Mother Abbess. Cinematically pho- to Broadway ...the production offers a more naturalistic Friday, November 16 at 9 p.m. Beginning his career as a stand-up comic in “interpretation of this great classic...” the early 1980s, John Leguizamo garnered early-career acclaim in 1993 with his memo- 8 VEGAS PBS SOURCE Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn - The Broadway Musical Together they turn the “farmhouse into a seasonal inn with show-stopping performances...” orators, including Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mandy Patinkin, John Kander, Susan Stroman, Angela Lansbury and others, all sharing